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I stopped participating when I read about version 1.2.0:>> * PlayTime now only computes total time when done adding files to the list. This should speed up things when adding very large lists of files<<, because I *thought* this was the opposite of what I wanted from your project. Only now am I thinking that I might have misinterpreted the text, so I ask: If I add some files (to the new version), will the total playtime be shown after each file, or must I first click something / save the file, before it will display the total playtime?

My wish for the program was and is for the total playtime to be shown at all time, when I create a playlist. I don't add large playlists, only individual audio files.

so I ask: If I add some files (to the new version), will the total playtime be shown after each file, or must I first click something / save the file, before it will display the total playtime?

Yes. The change only really comes in play when you drop a huge list of files or if you choose a folder that has a lot of subfolders to recurse through. I suppose this needs some code explanation. In previous version, PlayTime would compute the total time EVERY time a file was added to the list. So, if you had chosen a folder that contained thousands of media files, the total time computation would run thousands of times and this would slow things down as the list got larger and larger. What PlayTime does now is finish adding files to the list and THEN runs the total time computation. This results in a HUGE increase in speed when loading a large list. There is no need to save or do anything. The only thing you miss is watching the total time increase WHILE it's loading files. Does that make sense?

Just give the new version a try, I don't think you'll notice much of a difference.

hmm... using PlayTime, I converted a WPL playlist to M3U, and felt something was missing. I checked, and Yes, the playlist made by PlayTime is 2 hours shorter than the same list saved by WMP: 30 "rows" are missing!

In PlayTime I clicked > Select All > Save selected rows to playlist > Yes, I have selected 95 rows...If I use PlayTime to open a WMP-created M3U version and save it as another M3u list, it is 125 rows (not 95), and all is well.

-of course. Now I know first hand why I must get a key for ehh... what's the name, "total"-something or similar ..., "watch the differences between to files" ...? I tried to do it manually, and clearly lost oversight and missed to see the obvious.

Edited:Oh, there it was: Compare It! Is this the one to use? No "total"-something?

In general I am tired of freeware programs. Far too often they are updated too seldom or never. If I have purchased a key for a program, I feel I am entitled to hunt down the author and make his life miserable, if the program doesn't work as expected. But how do bully a freeware author? You can't!

I tested both UltraCompare and WinMerge, but removed them again because I didn't like their interfaces. I am not a coder and have absolutely very little to use this kind of programs for, so it is important to my IT illiterate brains that any "diff"-program above all is easy to use, and (only then) not too expensive. WinMerge is of course cheap (free) but the window is a little "weird", making it a slow process to read each line.

Remember that we are talking about two different type of files, M3U and WPL. The first song in the playlist will do fine as an example of the problem. In M3U it looks like this:

Website | Downloadv1.2.3 - 2012-01-27 + Added Unicode path support. * Updated to v0.7.53.0 of MediaInfo.dll. ! Windows 2000 and below no longer supported (due to added Unicode support). ! Removed Text-To-Speech option until I can figure out how to make it work with this Unicode version. Apologies.

PlayList is yet another great app. Any way these three options could be considered?...

1) Add an option to NOT recurse subdirectories (just do a single folder)

2) Add an 'Abort' button (kill a long listing)

3) As a way to process only playable media files... add an 'extension list' for file types to be included in the test. Alternatively, a list of extensions to exclude. Perhaps the list could just be hand-edited to the ini file. I know that one could use the option to not list files with 00:00 time, but why 'read' .exe and .txt or even .jpg files, for instance (consider the folder with 10 movie files and 2,000 'other' files). Also, some 'broken' media files display 00:000, and I don't want to skip those.

PlayList is yet another great app. Any way these three options could be considered?...

Here you go:

Website | Downloadv1.2.6 - 2012-01-30 + Added a "Cancel Scan" button to the toolbar. (Thanks, Wayne) + Pressing the Escape key will now cancel a scan as well. + Added checkbox setting to toggle recursive scanning of folders. (Thanks, Wayne) + Under the "Extra" menu, you can now configure which audio and video extensions that PlayTime will scan. (Thanks, Wayne) * Moved the "Clear list" button to the toolbar.

Thanks for adding the additional options. It makes the app even more useful.

For some reason the mp3 and wav files are not being seen in the folder I specified, but if I add those extensions to the front of the list then they are. I didn't check to see if other extensions are affected. Perhaps the list is too long?